Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a part of our daily lives, from drafting emails to recommending your next binge-watch. But what happens when AI is used to make decisions that profoundly impact a person’s life and liberty? CCC’s new CACM opinion piece, “Concerning the Responsible Use of AI in the U.S. Criminal Justice System,” explores just that.   The piece, originally based on CCC’s response to the National Institute of Justice’s 2024 Request for Information, was authored by a collective of distinguished computer scientists and researchers, including many CCC council members and individuals involved with other CRA committees.    The opinion piece begins by emphasizing the potential positive impacts […]

Originally written by Helen Wright and posted in CRA’s Computing Research News (CRN): The Computing Research Association (CRA) is planning an Accessible Technology for All workshop co-hosted by CRA-Industry (CRA-I), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-WP) on February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC.  This workshop is one of the activities CRA is currently pursuing under the umbrella of Socially Responsible Computing, one of the topics identified in the recent CRA Strategic Planning Effort. The purpose of this workshop is to convene academic, industry, and government representatives to vision ways to make all technology accessible and why that is important and necessary for society as a whole. Technology should […]